<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Rapsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rapsey@gmail.com">rapsey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I resorted to using a simple external program that I open a port to:<br>int main(int argc, char *argv[])<br>{<br> for (;;)<br> {<br> char c[1];<br> usleep(3000);<br> <br> if (write(1, c, 1) <= 0)<br>
break;<br> }<br> <br> return 0;<br>}<br><br>Works just fine :)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is a simple, yet nice solution.</div><div>I would be curious to know why timers are such a big problem in Erlang.</div>
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